La felicidad
Gabriel Rolón

NONFICTION | 2023 | 301 pages

OVER 300,000 COPIES SOLD

The art of listening to desire, by bestselling author and psychoanalyst Gabriel Rolón, whose books have sold over 3 million copies

As an impossibility and a dream, as an end but also as an imperative, the idea of happiness is more challenging today than ever. "How do we become happy?” —that question that hovers over us as a mandate of the modern world —was posed to daze us and make us lose sight of what should be the core question: "What is happiness?”

In his new book, Gabriel Rolón proposes that we retrace our steps. By dismantling common concepts and preconceptions to reveal what is hidden beyond that illusion that is sold as a cure-all yet is nothing more than a trap. Between psychoanalysis and art, between philosophy and literature, he then unfolds his literary road map ranging from classical mythology to Byung-Chul Han, passing through Freud, Lacan, Borges, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Einstein, Alejandro Dolina, Anne Frank, Bertrand Russell, and Comte-Sponville, among many others.

Once again, as he has done before and remaining faithful to that style that has led him to become one of the most widely read authors of the last decades, Rolón invites us to think against the grain of quick fads. And it is there, in that zone that is both uncomfortable and yearning for life, where La felicidad becomes an indispensable, lucid, essay on human life.

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La felicidad
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El duelo
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El precio de la pasión
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La voz ausente
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Cara a cara
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Encuentros
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Los padecientes
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Palabras cruzadas
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Historias de diván
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